Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cover) Like much of East Texas. Henderson County is a rolling expanse of pastureland, woods and worked-out cotton fields. Its county seat and cultural capital is a sleepy town with the splendid name of Athens (pop. 5,300). Henderson County and Athens have a distinction that makes them notable even in Texas. They have spawned about 50 of Texas' millionaires and multimillionaires.The biggest of these big rich are a select few known throughout Texas as"the new Athenians...
CORN FARMERS are looking for another bumper crop and lower prices this fall despite government attempts to cut down surpluses. Many farmers whose wheat and cotton plantings were cut by quotas increased corn planting to the point where 1954's acreage will be almost as high as last year's 81,037,000 acres. The estimated crop of 3.1 billion bu. will be on top of the present 750 million bu. carryover...
...Lease. The rains had hardly stopped before seed stores had a rush of buyers, and thousands of farmers-many of whom had not made a crop for three long years-were out on tractors hopefully preparing to plant cotton or sorghum. It was certain that miles of drear range would be green, at least for a time, this spring, and great areas of winter wheat that had escaped complete ruin got a new lease on life. Drought persisted in central and western Kansas, much of southwestern and central Nebraska. Most of Colorado and New Mexico got little if any rain...
...government tried early this year to bring foreign trade back into balance by boosting duties on all imports 25%. When the trade deficit kept getting worse and capital showed signs of taking flight northward, officials decided that they could not wait for this summer's expected bumper cotton and coffee crops to save the situation. Last week the government abruptly announced a devaluation of the Mexican peso-from 8.65 to 12.50 to the dollar...
...first large gift from a young minister--John Harvard--in 1638. But liberalism clashed with orthodoxy even at its inception. This time liberalism lost out. The college's first president, Henry Dunster, was forced to resign because of his doubts as to the validity of infant baptism. Cotton Mather, a later president wrote of him, "he fell into the briers of Antipacdobaptism...